Senior Research Associate - PROSPER Programme

J-PAL
Full-time United Kingdom, United Kingdom Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians
Posted:
January 30, 2026
Location:
United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Job Description

Summary of the organization

Our vision is of a world better led, a world better served and a world better governed. We are a global school committed to improving the quality of government and public policymaking worldwide, through three routes: teaching current and future leaders; generating research with impact; and engaging with governments and practitioners.

Summary of the role

Anchored at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, PROSPER tests scalable, evidence-based solutions – from smarter recruitment and job search tools to digitally enabled income support – to generate measurable gains for workers, firms, and economies. The programme is a multi-country collaboration of researchers from Oxford, Warwick, Duke, Northwestern, Berkeley, Peking, and RAND, J-PAL Africa, the Busara Center for Behavioural Economics, REMIT, and NGO and government partners in Kenya and South Africa.

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Posted: January 30, 2026
Deadline: March 11, 2026